RICKEY STORY OF INTEREST: Former Oakland A's general manager Sandy Alderson, who traded Rickey Henderson twice, was asked if had any particular favorite "Rickey story."

"Oh yeah," said Alderson, chuckling, "it would have to be the signing bonus check. At the end of the year, he still hadn't cashed it and when we called him about it, because we were getting our books in order, he said he was waiting for the interest rates to go up." ...

I think maybe our country needed a recession. People's spending habits had gotten out of control, and now these hard times has opened their eyes to the financial responsible way to spend your paycheck. I think our country is going to come out of this whole mess much stronger in the long run.

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